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Comics Reference Books:
Creators--Authors and Artists

I have here compiled a list of books about comic books, their history, the industry, the creators, and some of the issues associated with comics. Many of these books are, unfortunately, out of print, but can still be special ordered through Amazon.com.

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Bibliographies, Handbooks, and Guides
Comic Book Publishers, Titles, and Characters
History and Criticism

Al Capp Remembered by Elliott Caplin. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1994.

All in Color for a Dime by Richard A. Lupoff, Don Thompson (Editor). Krause Publications, 1997.

The Art of George du Maurier by Richard Kelly. Scolar Press, 1996.

Batman & Me: An Autobiography by Bob Kane, Tom Andrae. Forestville, CA: Eclipse, 1989.

But I Digress by Peter David. Krause Publications, 1994.

Cartoonometer: Taking the Pulse of the World's Cartoonists by Joe Szabo and John A. Lent. WittyWorld Books, 1994.

A Century of Women Cartoonists by Trina Robbins. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993.

Comic Book Artists by Alex G. Malloy, Brian Kelly, Kevin Ohlandt. Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1993.

The Comic-Book Book by Don Thompson (Editor), Dick Lupoff (Editor). Krause Publications, 1998.

The Comic Book Makers by Joe Simon, with Jim Simon. New York: Crestwood Publications, 1990.

Comic Book Rebels: Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics by Stanley Waiter and Stephen Bissette, eds. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1993.

Comic-Book Superstars by Don Thompson (Editor), Maggie Thompson (Editor). Krause Publications, 1993.

Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar by Joseph Witek. February 1990, Univ Pr of Mississippi.

The Comic Cruikshank Mark Brayant, ed. Intro. Kenneth Baker. London: Bellew, 1992.

Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner. Expanded Edition. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1985.

Contemporary Graphic Artists, vol. 1. Gale Research, 1986.

Contemporary Graphic Artists, vol.2. Maurice Horn, ed. Gale Research , 1987

Dangerous Drawings: Interviews with Comix & Graphix Artists Andrea Juno, ed., R. Crumb, Dan Clowes, Sue Coe (Illustrators). New York: Juno Books, 1997.

From Aargh! To Zap!; Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics by Harvey Kurtzman. New York: Arts, 1991.

Graphic Storytelling by Will Eisner. Tamarac, FL: Poorhouse Press, 1996.

Great Cartoonists and their Art by Art Wood. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1987.

The Great Comic Book Artists by Ron Goulart. St. Martin's Press, 1989.

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee, John Buscema. Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Kewpies and Beyond: The Word of Rose O'Neill by Shelley Armitage. University Press of Mississippi, 1994.

The Man Who Was H.M. Bateman by Anthony Anderson.

Milton Caniff: Rembrandt of the Comic Strip by J.P. Adams. New York: David McKay, 1946.

The New Comics: Interviews from the Pages of The Comics Journal by Gary Groth and Robert Fiore, eds. New York: Berkley, 1988.

The Steranko History of Comics by James Steranko.

The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography. Rose O'Neill, Miriam Formanek-Brunell. University of Missouri Press, 1997.

Tintin and the World of Herge : An Illustrated History by Benoit Peeters. 1992.

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud. Harper Perennial, 1994.

Winsor McCay: His Life and Art by John Canemaker. Foreword by Maurice Sendak. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

The Work of Charles Samuel Keene by Simon Houfe. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Scolar Press, 1995.

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